Carrots and turnips — Yield in Africa
Africa: Carrots and turnips — Yield was 16,488 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Africa, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Africa recorded 16,488 kg/ha for carrots and turnips — yield in 2024.
That represents a change of down 2.5% on the previous year and down 8.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, carrots and turnips — yield in Africa peaked at 21,398 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 8,804 kg/ha, in 1961.
Africa ranks 26th of 28 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Carrots and turnips — Yield in Africa, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8,804 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 9,865 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 1963 | 9,613 kg/ha | -2.6% |
| 1964 | 9,335 kg/ha | -2.9% |
| 1965 | 9,116 kg/ha | -2.4% |
| 1966 | 9,618 kg/ha | +5.5% |
| 1967 | 9,916 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1968 | 9,357 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 1969 | 9,182 kg/ha | -1.9% |
| 1970 | 9,240 kg/ha | +0.6% |
| 1971 | 9,181 kg/ha | -0.6% |
| 1972 | 8,893 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 1973 | 8,960 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 1974 | 9,788 kg/ha | +9.2% |
| 1975 | 9,743 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1976 | 9,754 kg/ha | +0.1% |
| 1977 | 9,666 kg/ha | -0.9% |
| 1978 | 9,999 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 1979 | 10,361 kg/ha | +3.6% |
| 1980 | 10,355 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 1981 | 10,634 kg/ha | +2.7% |
| 1982 | 9,994 kg/ha | -6.0% |
| 1983 | 9,644 kg/ha | -3.5% |
| 1984 | 9,296 kg/ha | -3.6% |
| 1985 | 10,026 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1986 | 10,876 kg/ha | +8.5% |
| 1987 | 11,324 kg/ha | +4.1% |
| 1988 | 10,720 kg/ha | -5.3% |
| 1989 | 11,558 kg/ha | +7.8% |
| 1990 | 10,845 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1991 | 10,601 kg/ha | -2.2% |
| 1992 | 11,127 kg/ha | +5.0% |
| 1993 | 11,640 kg/ha | +4.6% |
| 1994 | 11,889 kg/ha | +2.1% |
| 1995 | 12,993 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1996 | 12,241 kg/ha | -5.8% |
| 1997 | 12,755 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1998 | 12,886 kg/ha | +1.0% |
| 1999 | 12,480 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2000 | 12,534 kg/ha | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 12,706 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 2002 | 13,104 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 2003 | 14,011 kg/ha | +6.9% |
| 2004 | 14,472 kg/ha | +3.3% |
| 2005 | 14,402 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 2006 | 14,210 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2007 | 14,324 kg/ha | +0.8% |
| 2008 | 15,026 kg/ha | +4.9% |
| 2009 | 14,828 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2010 | 14,381 kg/ha | -3.0% |
| 2011 | 16,208 kg/ha | +12.7% |
| 2012 | 21,398 kg/ha | +32.0% |
| 2013 | 19,584 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2014 | 18,025 kg/ha | -8.0% |
| 2015 | 16,267 kg/ha | -9.8% |
| 2016 | 16,697 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 2017 | 17,546 kg/ha | +5.1% |
| 2018 | 18,229 kg/ha | +3.9% |
| 2019 | 18,438 kg/ha | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 15,334 kg/ha | -16.8% |
| 2021 | 16,647 kg/ha | +8.6% |
| 2022 | 16,923 kg/ha | +1.7% |
| 2023 | 16,910 kg/ha | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 16,488 kg/ha | -2.5% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Carrots and turnips — Yield in Africa changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | +32.0% | 16,208 kg/ha | 21,398 kg/ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9,423 kg/ha | 8,804 kg/ha | 9,916 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,559 kg/ha | 8,893 kg/ha | 10,361 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,443 kg/ha | 9,296 kg/ha | 11,558 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,946 kg/ha | 10,601 kg/ha | 12,993 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 13,962 kg/ha | 12,534 kg/ha | 15,026 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 17,677 kg/ha | 14,381 kg/ha | 21,398 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 16,460 kg/ha | 15,334 kg/ha | 16,923 kg/ha | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is carrots and turnips — yield in Africa?
- Carrots and turnips — yield in Africa was 16,488 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 21,398 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest carrots and turnips — yield recorded in Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 8,804 kg/ha in 1961.
- How does Africa rank for carrots and turnips — yield?
- Africa ranks 26th out of 28 groups with data for 2024.
- Is carrots and turnips — yield rising or falling in Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is down 8.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Africa data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Carrots and turnips — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.